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Favorite Holiday Crafts
« Thread Started on Nov 16, 2003, 8:57am »

When I was little, my siblings and I would spend hours down in our basement toy room coloring pictures torn out of Christmas coloring books, and then we'd glue cotton balls to make snow or Santa's beard or poke holes in the top to make homemade Christmas ornaments. I really miss that. We had so much fun! Maybe we should get together to do that again.

What's your favorite crafty thing to do at Christmas, if you have any? Or are you the cookie-baking type? We used to bake sugar cookies every year in the shape of reindeer and bells and Santa heads and such. Then we'd frost them with home-made icing and add sprinkles or the occasional red hot candy. I'll probably be doing that again this year, too.

I love Christmas/Hanukkah time!

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Re: Favorite Christmas Crafts
« Reply #1 on Nov 16, 2003, 10:00am »

When I was in elementary school, for Christmas, they had us make Reindeer puppets out of brown paper bags. Not being Christian (nor all that concerned with Christmas), I'd inevitably make a puppet that had nothing to do with reindeer or Christmas. Though they couldn't really get me in trouble for not adheering to a religious-related practice in a public school, I got a few vague comments put on my report card about lack of discipline in art class.

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Re: Favorite Christmas Crafts
« Reply #2 on Nov 16, 2003, 11:39am »

Christmas Time was my favorite time in the Elementary art department.

I loved making maccaroni angel ornaments, and salty dough ornaments. Paper plates with santa's face, The ever popular reindeer pupper out of a paper bag. ,

I loved making the stain glass ornaments ( You know, the kind with wax paper and crayon shavings and you would run the iron over them to melt them)

What about the super cool paper chain? And the popcorn garland?

Hey but we cant all forget, For thanksgiving, The ever popular trace your hand on a piece of paper and make it a turkey~!

And Native American paper bandana with construction paper feathers glued to the top.

OhHHHhhh man I really miss the good old days of Paste Eating and cut paper... Anyone want to get together at my place next weekend and indulge in Paper crafts of yester year?

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Re: Favorite Christmas Crafts
« Reply #3 on Nov 16, 2003, 9:29pm »

Dude, just last week, I got all of my six housemates to make hand turkeys with me! They are now displayed proudly on our front door.

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Re: Favorite Christmas Crafts
« Reply #4 on Nov 17, 2003, 9:54pm »

I'd love to have a craft day!

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Re: Favorite Holiday Crafts
« Reply #5 on Nov 18, 2003, 1:12am »

In 7th grade, I made a cross stitching of a mouse in a stocking holding a candy cane, or something like that.

I remember in 5th grade, we were assigned to make snowflake men. We cut snowflakes and then made gave them anthropomorphic features. I gave my snowflake man metallic-looking boots and an arm cannon and a helmet with radar and night vision goggles or something to that effect. I think in the other hand he was holding a machete or a javelin or some sharp weapon. I added a scarf and shoulder pads to complete the ensemble. I was proud of my warrior snowflake man.

When all our snowflake men were taped to the hallway outside the room, mine wasn't there. I asked the teacher where my snowflake man was. She said she threw it away, and that she was appalled that I would create something so violent. I dunno. It was made of paper. I suppose that, when misused, my snowflake man could have given someone a really nasty paper cut. I remember being really angry at my teacher for throwing away my snowflake man, that I had put so much thought into. That may sound silly, but I think that is my natural reaction to what I deem to be unjust criticism. I can take constructive criticism, but it kind of hits a nerve when I work long and hard to create something that I am happy with and/or proud of and someone tells me that it's worthless garbage.

Oh, and that wouldn't be the first time one of my teachers has thrown away something I worked on, telling me it's terrible, but those are other stories that should be saved for some other time.

For some reason, though, my mom saved all the Christmas ornaments I made out of construction paper when I was in preschool. That's fine art, right there.

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Re: Favorite Holiday Crafts
« Reply #6 on Nov 18, 2003, 6:24am »

I can take constructive criticism, but it kind of hits a nerve when I work long and hard to create something that I am happy with and/or proud of and someone tells me that it's worthless garbage.

You know, you already had the pretraining to become a graphic artist... happens to me all the time.

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Re: Favorite Holiday Crafts
« Reply #7 on Nov 18, 2003, 10:30am »

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!

Okay, I supremely hate when teachers do something so terrible as to throw out someone's work because it's not to their liking. Too bad, bitch! You're supposed to encourage creativity, not stifle it. Ooh, that burns me up. Especially since I have to go to school for another year and a half and pay all this money to get certified when teachers like that already have jobs. All the classes in the world can't make you a good teacher. Mike, your teacher should have been fired on the spot. How dare she throw your project out! She doesn't have the right. If she thought it was too violent, she could have quietly given it back to you and talked to you about it. At least you could have taken it home to enjoy yourself.

And Jeff's teacher should have been fired, too, for saying he didn't have enough discipline when he was simply using his creativity. If I ever turn into a teacher like these losers, I'm going to shoot myself. Teachers are supposed to encourage individuality and creative thinking. And these teachers went and killed it unchecked. And here I am without a job about to go into even more debt, when I could do a much better job than these hos. This system sucks. And the sad thing is so many students grow up scarred for life by some of the stupid things these teachers do. I'm not talking about small mistakes here. Throwing away a kid's project is not a small mistake. It's heartless and callous, and very very irresponsible teaching. What you're teaching kids by doing something like that isn't just that their work is worthless, but that people in power can do whatever the hell they want. But I guess that's how it is in the "real world", isn't it? >:(

Incidentally, when I have kids and if they are not home-schooled, if one of their teachers even attempts to do something like this, I will probably go berserk and call the Principal at home and demand to have a conference with the teacher and tear up something she made right in front of her face to see how she likes it. Okay, I probably wouldn't do that, but you bet your bottom I'd make a major stink about it.

(Whoever posts, "Keira calm down" after this is going to get spanked next time I see them. So don't do it, unless you want to get spanked. But who knows? You just might like it.

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Re: Favorite Holiday Crafts
« Reply #8 on Nov 18, 2003, 11:46am »

Keira, calm down!

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Re: Favorite Holiday Crafts
« Reply #9 on Nov 18, 2003, 12:56pm »

*SPANK!*

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Re: Favorite Holiday Crafts
« Reply #10 on Dec 1, 2003, 11:09am »

Come on, doesn't anyone want to have a holiday craft day with me? We can make paper snowflakes and cover them with blue sparkles. And we can make Santa with a real cotton ball beard, and a soft anatomically correct snowman, complete with magic black construction paper hat! And we can make popcorn string for our Christmas trees, and painted pine cone ornaments!

Oh, please please please someone come do crafts with me! I promise it's not just an excuse to get you into bed!

(Unless you want it like that. Then baby, you know I'll give it to you...)

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